All great points I agree with, but I guess we also have to accept the world has changed from when we were kids.
To most older people, not having had that social interaction would be unimaginable. But kids today are already adept at forming relationships with much less face to face time.
We can't say our way was all good and the new way is all bad though.
For example, our world was made for certain types of characters to excel: confident, outgoing, attractive for example.
Perhaps a more online world gives the less extroverted people a chance to shine? The workplace extrovert who everyone likes, so no one questions their productivity vs the boring and shy nerd, who whilst working at home, leads a design via chat that build an incredible new product.
This seems to be the way of the world - at least as far as the UK/EU relationship is concerned now. The politics of division, brinkmanship, finger-pointing, rhetoric and posturing.
I'd rather we played like Bielsa & Leeds. Fast paced, comit men forward.
Id rather perform like they did against Liverpool & lose 4-3 than perfom like we did against Reading